Lucrezia Floriani

The upright – and uptight – prince Karol de Roswald meets Lucrezia Floriani, a former actress with a chequered past. Despite their very different backgrounds and tastes, a passionate love affair develops. The mutual friend who has brought them together, Salvator Albani, is astounded.

Weaving intricate patterns from the shifting alliances between these three principal characters, George Sand traces the dramatically swift rise and painfully slow destruction of the relationship between a sever...